IT Engineer
Location: GB, , 
Department: Tech
Employment type: Full-time

Company profile:
Space Ape Games is an Award Winning Mobile/Social Gaming startup founded in 2012. We’re a small, high-performing team with big aspirations to make the highest quality and most successful games on your smart phone and tablet.We believe that the trait nearly all of the most successful games on mobile and tablet have in common is that they were made by talented teams with lots of experience working together. There are tens of thousands of app developers, but only a handful of really good, really experienced, well gelled teams out there.Accordingly, everyone on our team is an “A-player” with deep gaming experience. We are some of the key guys and gals behind the biggest games on Facebook and on the internet. Our team is behind a #1 game on Facebook, two #2 games on facebook, and one of the biggest virtual worlds for kids on the planet. And now with Samurai Siege we have a US top 50 grossing app (top 10 in some countries) played by more than 7m people in it’s first few months since launch.We love great tech. Not for its own sake but because we make games for big audiences and that means it’s got to work all the time. Because we are in a competitive space and that means we need to be fast and efficient. We are serious about sprint management. It’s good for our game, and keeps us focused.We are a creative company tempered by great analytics. Smart analytics can make a good game even better. But we think analytics alone makes soulless products. Why choose just one?

Job description:
At Space Ape we believe in making innovative, high quality games that are fun to play and even more fun with your friends. We believe in tempering those games with world class technology.  We believe that making a whole lot of people happy through great games is good.We are committed to building a company of world class engineering and world class game craftsmanship: A place where the best engineers love to work and the best game designers and developers love to create the future of play.Our culture is centered around empowerment, passion, commitment, and fun.  We’re a small team because we believe small teams can change the world.  And one day when we are bigger, we’ll be a bigger company full of small teams.We believe that happiness is important.  We strive to create a happy and productive working environment.  Our studio is, well, kick ass.We seek individuals who, in addition to being amazing engineers, also enjoy the other aspects of building a new company.  Designing features, making decisions, multi-stack programming, recruiting, finding users; you name it.   And foosball.But most of all, we are looking for extraordinarily talented engineers who share our love of technology and games.ResponsibilitiesTaking ownership of day-to-day IT operations tasksMaintaining a prioritised list of tasksMaintaining and improving the IT infrastructure of our HQ office in Soho:NetworkingVOIP systemDisplay screensCloud servicesPrintersSecurityHelping to budget for CAPEX and OPEXHelping to plan for company growthDesigning and developing tools to make our company more efficientMaintaining our corporate systems and websitePlease send your CVs to #EMAIL_6456e7eb8522053df00a4668a76cfd29ac46dff81dfb5ee30ffef95894a28040#

Requirements:
Key requirementsExperience designing and developing tools to make people more efficientExperience maintaining and improving an office infrastructureExperience managing cloud systems for a companyA knowledge of security issues that face a business, with a focus on heavy useage of cloud servicesExcellent communication skills and attitudeBonus points forHaving worked in a gaming/entertainment companyKnowledge of AWSCreating / contributing to open source projectsDemonstrating web design developmentKnowledge of infrastructure as code systems such as Chef or PuppetBeing a world champion at foosballBeing a Samurai Siege fan

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